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SWG will not last till the end of 2006
Warsong
Member Posts: 563
Server populations are guesstimated at 10-20% of what they were a year ago.
SOE has betrayed the trust of their most loyal fans..you know, the hard core SW fans...ya the ones who stuck with the game since launch until now. Plus most of these were the adult SW fans (the ones with money to spend each month).
The game has just as many bugs or more as it did when it launched.
If they get new customers most of them will be kids and will not have the maturity level to help others to complete missions and run guilds and such. They will quickly tire and leave.
The finacial hit they are already taking is costing SOE employees their jobs increasing workloads on skeleton crews which leads to overworked tired people which leads to many more mistakes causing poorer service as well as bugs.
The game is now dumbed down to the quality of a game that would not charge a monthly fee (even worse than that if you include the ongoing bugs in the game, I would say the one time fee of $9.99 shelf)
If you never played this game, take heed, be warned, IT WILL BE A WASTE OF YOUR TIME AND MONEY!!!
I played on one of the most populated servers since launch, ran a guild of (at one time) had over 300 members, was allied or warred with many other guilds (all the major ones) less than 5% of the people in any of them remain if any at all.
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The above reply was brought to you by yet another scared and starving employee of SOE
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The above reply was brought to you by yet another scared and starving employee of SOE
No, just someone with a foothold in reality. If you try the game yourself having never played before, I guarantee you will like it. Sad how every person who hates the game thinks that they have the only correct opinion, and that everyone who likes the game works for SOE.
Anarchyart,
I have to agree with you on this. If you are new to a game try the demo or in this case the free download. Don't let others determine if you will like the game.
I have left the game but hold out hope that it will get better.
Bogie
Corellian Run
Jedi Sentinel
Actually what is really sad is the thought of someone taking your advice and wasting their time and money or most likely their parents money.
90% of the people who played this game will warn you from it.
So that would make you 10% minority or an employee of SOE.
Either way the reality here is that SWG is a game that is riddled with bugs and they have betrayed what in all probability their most loyal fans (since most of the bad publicity is coming from the veterans that played and stuck with it up till the NGE unless you think that die hard SW fans stayed away from it till now...LOL think again)
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Sharky no likey the truth.
If the game is so fun, stop whining and play.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
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Another thing to keep in mind while making your informed decision to play or not to. Companies like SOE will have its employees subscribe to popular forums such as these and try and sway the publics vote to spend your money and or time on their product. After all if they are successful it means putting dollars in their pockets even if they have a product that 90% of its customers to date have declared it a waste of said money.
I'm sure SOE at least has one paid advocate posting on these forums so dont be fooled. But by all means go get the free trial LMAO 90% of those who do try it I'm sure will not stay and I again warn you do not spend any money there and any time spent there building anything will be destroyed by money hungry corperate thugs who have lost sight of things such as integrity and good will and finally keeping a promise to their customers.
Ya your right its a free country, free for us to warn unsuspecting good people not to purchase a bad product doomed to failure by its own poor buisness practices.
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Shhhh... Logic befuddles them.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
/golf clap
Dont you get tired of posting 50 times a day defending SOE? You say its only a game ,if that all it is to you then why do you bother with so much effort just defending a game? Surely you see the hypocrisy in your actions.
For us whiners/haters/no life losers/sad people who dont like this game, sure you have labeled us, but what label would then apply to you? People who for no reason other than their love/like of a game must defend it relentlessly day in and day out.
Which is sadder, those that have been playing a game for years and have built up a community, then have it taken away from them and they feel betrayed? Or people who just started to play the game and yet instead of playing live in the forums defending it. This a rhetorical question btw, because the answer is obvious.
Who is more foolish.. the fool, or the fool that follows $OE.
Shayde - SWG (dead)
Proud member of the Cabal.
It sounds great, so great in fact, I pitty those who canceled
I don't like it when you say things. - A Vanguard fan who does too.
09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
If they do make a console version of SWG that works along the PC version, like FFXI. Then I can see SWG making it pass 2006. I mean come on... EQOA is still going on PS2, and that game sucked hardcore.
If they do not make a console version of SWG. I have to agree that I don't see SWG making it pass mid to late 2006.
In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
you people make me laugh i love coming to this particular forums to hear all the lunacy it is quite entertaining...........soe sent evil agents here to defend the game.............i am a vet i got screwed..........people writing christmas poems involving devs from soe........... i mean seriously putting up flyers in a game store to boycott a game and putting stickers on the back of the game box..........woooweeee man alive what did you folks do before this game was launched........so we all get screwed in the ass by big business.........you all honestly thought they gave a crap about the customer and not making money.............come on man they ruined the best mmo of all time (everquest) so now there gonna kill swg. maybe that needs to happen...........maybe this game is gonna bounce back who knows who cares enjoy while its here or don't. there are other games out there to play...(man i am sleepy)
anthony j chillemi jr.
I'd have to agree with the above poster.
Either play it to save it, or leave and watch it go away. Most of this "Soap Opera" while interesting to watch, is not going to solve the problem. Face it, SWG is going to a place many of us either can not or will not go to. Heck, even the New York Times published a peice on the issues here. SOE is running out of time to save this flaming starship simulation/crafting simulation/terrain generator/chat room program that could also be a game. And whatever happens next, happens next, no one outside of SOE can affect the outcome.
Sorry to say it but we're not going anywhere, people say to play the game or leave the game and well to some thats a viable thing to do, for others it really is some kind of mini movement. What many people fail to realize is other game companies are paying VERY close attention to whats going on. They have been given notice that such tactics will not be beneficial to them. We are in fact making it better for other people in mmo's possibly for years to come who have never heard of SOE.
Before saying how we dont matter, its precisely because of the negative feedback, the thousands of former SOE players in forum after forum, posting in review after review that is now getting mainstream media to pay attention to us, and more importantly SOE's business practice. So yes we are making a difference, a difference that would not have happened if we just quit and melted away like snow on a hot summer day.
Its not our job to solve the problem. Its not mmorpg's job to provide a forum to solve the problems. people come here to talk , to vent, to instigate, to defend , to attack etc. Seems this forums is doing exactly what it is supposed to do offer a non SOE forum to discuess SWG and how we each feel about it. I sy listen to the ones who say if you cant handle it leave , dont matter if you support NGE or hate it - if having someone who disagrees with you upsets you, move on, forums for anything are not for you.
I dont think any ones personal goal here is to affect the game in any way shape or form, SOE already said if you're player now you dont get a voice in the matter. They also silence their own forums with a really brutal set of moderation rules where typing /agree to a post that points out an obvious bug and/or exploit will get you baned. the forums there are one sided go post " The NGE is awesome but you vets can lick my hairy butt!" on the swg forums, nothing will happen to you. then post " The NGE is the suck "and list 4 bugs you have seen ,you get banned. Those that are banned are not gonna be happy with SOE and will look for other places to vent. As the number of people who lose forums rights goes up so does griping on non soe sites.
Cant blame the people posting for this can you? With every wave of fresh banning comes a new wave of really hateful stuff posted elsewhere. Deal with it , people dont like it and will say they dont anytime they want just like those who do like it can say they do anytime they want.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Heh, some of the "luny" people here are people who know what makes a difference in life no matter what the genrea or what we did with our lives before in the middle or afterwards and shutting up and or going away isnt it. All shutting up and going away acomplishes is keeping the ignorant, ignorant and believe it or not PEOPLE CARE you freakin idiot because its part of life just like anything else.
Who do you think has influence over these games/buinesses.....people just like me or you..Who do you think will shape our future from a game to ocean liners or whatever, its people and do we get there by Idiotically enjoying anything that gets thrown our way or shoved down our throat???? NEG!!!, see some people have the sac to stand up and be heard to make a difference, and some people have the wisdom to listen to others life experiences about matters of community/buisness/(insert whats important to you here) and benifit from that information.
And some like yourself.......the word sheep comes to mind because they obliviously follow the herd like to think they are smart and sometimes pause their cheetoe eating fest to spew some crap at people they think is inteligent(but more often its really not)
I know a ton of people..thats influence, some of these people work at and/or own companies...thats power, that combined with other efforts such as informing a community outside that via media outlets shapes the world and all thats within it...sinking in yet sheepboy???
What did I do b4 the SWG was launched???? Ran a company/made a difference/lived life, pretty much like now.
PIRATE LORDS
Ill say this, go read all the reviews then make up your mind. But personaly i'd say to you all, dont bother with SWG, they made me waste 2 years of my life.
"I'm not a racist...I only hate stupid people..."-SinisterCB